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My FB friend, Jamie Dreyer, turned me on to the Squatty Potty® in his recent post.  It is the most convenient and effective way to improve your bathroom posture.  Most people don’t realize that the optimal elimination posture is a relaxed position as close as possible to a natural squat.

Squatty Potty® toilet stools create a healthy toilet posture to relieve and prevent constipation in the following ways:

• In the squatting position, gravity does most of the work. The weight of the torso presses against the thighs and naturally compresses the colon. Gentle pressure from the diaphragm supplements the force of gravity.

• Squatting relaxes the puborectalis muscle, allowing the anorectal angle to straighten and the bowel to empty completely.

• Squatting lifts the sigmoid colon to unlock the "kink" at the entrance to the rectum. This kink also helps prevent incontinence, by taking some of the pressure off the puborectalis muscle.

• The colon is equipped with an inlet valve (the ileocecal valve) and an outlet valve (the puborectalis muscle). Squatting simultaneously closes the inlet valve, to keep the small intestine clean, and opens the outlet valve, to allow wastes to pass freely. The sitting position defeats the purpose of both valves, making elimination difficult and incomplete, and soiling the small intestine.

What does all this mean?  Quite simply your sitting posture on the toilet bowel produces a kinked colon; whereas your Squatty Potty ® posture provides an open colon.  The Squatty Potty® can be stored under your toilet. While sitting, you pull the Squatty Potty® out to a comfortable distance and place your feet on the foot rests. The more you simulate a natural squat position, the better.  

Eliminating completely and often helps maintain good colon health. Many studies point to fecal buildup in the colon as a cause of diseases including colon cancer. And when there is buildup in the colon, our bodies can’t absorb all the nutrients from the food we eat, leaving us without the energy we could enjoy if our colons were healthy.  Urinary flow is usually stronger and easier when women squat to urinate. The bladder is emptied more completely when squatting rather than sitting or “hovering”. Squatting can help reduce episodes of urinary tract infections in both frequency and intensity.

The Squatty Potty® may feel different at first, but the body quickly adjusts and the new healthy way of eliminating quickly becomes second nature. For most people, the difference is immediate while for some it takes about a week to adjust, relax and get things moving.

Check out the Squatty Potty ® website:  http://www.squattypotty.com

You can purchase from Amazon with free shipping.  I got mine at Harmon’s Discount: $24.99 and then I had a $5.00 coupon! Quite a bargain for 20 bucks:)